Substance to me doesn’t mean it has a message or meaning, but contains a lot more story than run and gun. It’s got backstory, great characters (pro and antagonists), funny and/or hidden jokes, great writing, relatable maybe. It’s not a run of the mill boring shoot em up or racing movie. Actual effort was put into it.
In short, it sounds like you use substance to mean it’s a good movie.
That seems a poor use for a word, to simply replace another perfectly good word with no additional context or nuance.
Now it seems like you’re assuming a good movie simply means a movie you like.
Which also isn’t great. I know there are lots of good movies that just aren’t for me, and I don’t enjoy all the much. But I’ll absolutely defend their quality.
But if I’m totally off base here, I’d appreciate more clarification.
Agree fully on Drive even though I love everything about it.
But ghostbusters? Shit was a pretty unique movie when it came out, and still holds up, plenty of substance. Weird item on that list.
Exactly what substance?
It’s fun. It’s entertaining. It’s a fantastic movie. But what the point of it? What’s it’s message? What’s it’s meaning?
Substance to me doesn’t mean it has a message or meaning, but contains a lot more story than run and gun. It’s got backstory, great characters (pro and antagonists), funny and/or hidden jokes, great writing, relatable maybe. It’s not a run of the mill boring shoot em up or racing movie. Actual effort was put into it.
In short, it sounds like you use substance to mean it’s a good movie.
That seems a poor use for a word, to simply replace another perfectly good word with no additional context or nuance.
That’s not remotely what I said. There are very deep movies with substance that I just don’t care about or can’t get into.
Now it seems like you’re assuming a good movie simply means a movie you like.
Which also isn’t great. I know there are lots of good movies that just aren’t for me, and I don’t enjoy all the much. But I’ll absolutely defend their quality.
But if I’m totally off base here, I’d appreciate more clarification.
Lmao ok man, I guess we’re done here.